DoD IT Enterprise Strategy and Roadmap

DoD IT Enterprise Strategy and Roadmap

Department of Defense (DoD)

Information Technology (IT)

Enterprise Strategy and Roadmap

Version 1.0 ¨C 6 SEP 11

September 2011

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Foreword

The number of networks the Department of Defense (DoD) uses to execute its missions has

increased significantly over the past 30 years. Although these networks have proved vital to

DoD¡¯s success, the incremental and evolutionary manner in which DoD develops information

technology (IT) has resulted in layers of stove-piped systems that are difficult to integrate and

not as effective as needed. Although DoD¡¯s IT infrastructure enables warfighters to operate

effectively in the twenty-first century, the unnecessary complexity of our networks and IT

reduces our ability to secure our information systems, hampers our ability to share information,

and needlessly consumes the finite resources available to DoD. This untenable situation requires

us to make dramatic changes in how we develop, implement, and sustain IT across DoD.

Together, we must modify existing processes to reduce complexity and optimize our networks

for the joint environment. Our goals are to dramatically increase our cyber security posture,

increase our effectiveness across joint and coalition lines, and reduce the resources our networks

consume.

This document is our Strategy and Initial Roadmap to achieve these goals and deliver a

streamlined, rationalized, and simpler network by consolidating IT infrastructure across DoD. As

such, this document also aligns with the U.S. Chief Information Officer (CIO) ¨D25 Point

Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management¡¬, particularly its

call for enhanced operational efficiency. Through this strategy, we are committing to a task that

requires changes to policies, cultural norms, and organizational processes to provide lasting

results. We will focus initially on obtaining tangible results in Fiscal Years (FY) 2011¨C2012 and

plan for aggressive consolidation through FY2015. Aggressively consolidating now will better

position us to embrace emerging technology and provide cutting-edge service to our warfighters.

This aggressive consolidation cannot, however, come at the price of degraded capabilities for the

warfighter or inflexible commitment to a specific technological solution. Accordingly, this

strategy and roadmap is intended to provide DoD with sufficient flexibility to respond to and

incorporate emerging technology and to identify and take appropriate actions for those efforts

that are not producing.

Our focus remains, as it always has been and always will be, on providing the military forces

needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country. This effort will be a collaborative

undertaking in which I will work side-by-side with DoD¡¯s Component CIO or equivalent IT

leads to plan and execute this roadmap and to strengthen the partnerships between the DoD

CIO¡¯s office and the offices of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology &

Logistics (USD(AT&L)), Director¨CCost Assessment and Program Evaluation (D, CAPE), Under

Secretary of Defense Comptroller (USD(C)), and Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO) to

affect long-term change. I look forward to leading DoD through this consolidation effort and

delivering a better DoD Information Enterprise in the immediate future.

//signed//

Teri M. Takai

DoD Chief Information Officer

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Executive Summary

Historically, DoD¡¯s information technology (IT) investments have been made to meet the needs

of individual projects, programs, organizations, and facilities. This decentralized approach has

resulted in large cumulative costs and a patchwork of capabilities that create cyber vulnerabilities

and limit the ability to capitalize on the promise of new developments in IT.

In August 2010, the Secretary of Defense

directed the consolidation of IT

infrastructure to achieve savings in

acquisition, sustainment, and manpower

costs and to improve DoD¡¯s ability to

execute its missions while defending its

networks against growing cyber threats.

Specific direction was received to

consolidate IT infrastructure to optimize for

the joint environment and to pursue

consolidation in a way that does not preclude

future consolidation of IT infrastructure at

the DoD enterprise level.

During the first quarter of FY 2011, more

than 240 representatives from the Office of

the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Military

Departments, Defense Information Systems

Agency (DISA), National Security Agency

(NSA), and United States Cyber Command

(USCYBERCOM) analyzed opportunities to

consolidate DoD IT infrastructure through

specific initiatives in five functional areas:

Network Services, Computing Services,

Application & Data Services, End-User

Services, and IT Business Processes.

Detailed descriptions, initial implementation

timelines, and rough-order-of-magnitude

(ROM) estimates of the required investments

and potential savings were developed for 26

initiatives. Each initiative contributes to one or more of the IT Enterprise goals¡ªincrease

mission effectiveness, improve cyber security, and deliver efficiencies.

Preliminary estimates are that this initial set of initiatives will deliver efficiencies of between

$1.2 billion and $2.2 billion annually by FY2016 and between $3.2 billion and $5.2 billion over

the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). This effort already has resulted in a direct budget

reduction of $1.7 billion across the FYDP in the FY2012 DoD submission to the President¡¯s

Budget through specific IT consolidation actions by the Air Force ($1.2 billion) and the Army

($500 million).

The DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) Executive Board (CIO EB) is DoD¡¯s senior functional

oversight body for IT infrastructure and will be the focal point for IT consolidation governance.

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The Components¡¯ progress against their IT consolidation performance measures will be reported

through the CIO EB to the Deputy¡¯s Advisory Working Group (DAWG) and the Defense

Business Systems Management Committee (DBSMC) as appropriate.

Specific changes to DoD¡¯s three core processes¡ªJoint Capabilities Integration and Development

System (JCIDS), Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE), and Defense

Acquisition System (DAS)¡ªare required to address the systemic conditions that lead to DoD¡¯s

stove-piped IT infrastructure. The DoD CIO will work with the core process owners to

implement the required changes. These efforts will be synchronized with the parallel DoD

activities under way to reform DoD IT acquisition.

Effective communication is critical to building the DoD-wide commitment that will be required

to optimize DoD IT infrastructure for the joint environment. This document is the initial

communication of the Secretary¡¯s intent and will be followed by communications that detail

associated policy, performance measures, architectures, and standards.

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